Showing posts with label snow machines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow machines. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Larry Shinoda designed vehicles

With Gurney Westlake 520hp V8 engine, it was capable of 150mph. The original design for this was done on the napkins at a hamburger restaurant.

Econoline �Kilimanjaro� safari van, 1969 show car. Front wheel drive

1969 Ford Mach II design

1969 car show Torino Super Cobra front and back

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Late 60's snowmobiles racing (North American Championships) through downtown Munising, Upper Michigan, on home video

Saturday, April 17, 2010

What can you do with your chopper during the winter? Convert it into a snow machine

via: http://www.wkithok.blogspot.com/

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Jascrushinator .. .. odd but interesting

via: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229248&showall=1

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Even the Romanovs drove ski clad and tank tracked cars!

Via: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/02/26/the-guns-of-st-petersburg/

Saturday, March 6, 2010

A model T in skis and snow, 1924

It looks like a homecrafted wooden slat tank tracks on a double rear axle, but it's such low resolution I can't tell for sure. Via: http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/el_camino_sierra/page76a.html

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Interesting images from "small answers without question" piccole.rispostesenzadomanda.com

Above: Mile a minute Murphy and somebody else on home trainers... competitively. Interesting set up to see who is ahead!
I've seen one other shot of this, I wish I'd saved it., this is a BMW

Friday, February 19, 2010

Snowblower train in slow motion gettting through 10 foot high drifts

image from http://www.savetheenzos.com/post/342087498/snowblower-train-corvette-forum via http://friendship-classics.tumblr.com/page/15

For something to see happening skip to the one minute mark, for a close up of the blower, skip to the 5 minute mark, for it ot get moving and make progress skip to the 8 minute mark


Thursday, February 18, 2010

Another Turbonique application of crazy... the Boss Cat snowmobile, why did it need 1000 hp? Land speed record of course


Saturday, January 23, 2010

Abandoned stuff website


the LeTourneau electric arctic land trains has a great write up recently on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2009/11/19/54-wheel-drive-the-letourneau-electric-arctic-land-trains-that-put-australian-road-trains-to-shame/

Above, the Kee Bird, which was the subject of an awesome recovery effort when private funding got it up and running, and moving, but old electrical wiring shorted, and the whole thing burned to cinders on film while a documentary was being filmed, it is so worth seeing!
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